Dave The Hat is looking forward to a night out in Soho with his friend Nobby... "He is a large man, with a large suit, head and face, and a Henry VIII-style beard. He doffs his battered bowler hat and turns round to reveal the word “NO” razor-cut into his hair. He is wearing Crocs."

An excerpt from Courttia Newland's latest book The Gospel According to Cane: One winter afternoon a baby is kidnapped from a parked car. Two decades later, the mother is followed and then approached by a young man who claims that he is her son...

To clear his debts Jimmy Vale, singer of one-hit wonders The Tyrants, is asked by his manager to fake his own death and join Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse in “The 27 Club” - the unfortunate collection of rock stars that all died at twenty seven...

The other mums look at her strangely and whisper behind her back, but Lauren doesn't care - she has her beautiful baby, Belle, and her husband waiting for her at home... A new darkly comic short story by Sarah Cumming.

The Sacrifice is the story of a young woman navigating grief and burgeoning adulthood against the backdrop of growing social and racial tension. In 2012 it won the inaugural Commonword Children’s Diversity Writing Prize.

A new short story: Football Manager Pete is a veteran of the game but his wife Janet has only recently rediscovered her artistic inclination - expressed in 'sculptures that looked like curly dog turds'...